Amazing Stories of Suspense #42 (Alan Class)
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One of the best value comics a one could pick up in the sixties was one from the line of those published by Alan Class. These were all black & white reprints of stories from American comics. Usually mystery but some Marvel, Archie & ACG heroes did make it into the pages of the very interchangeable titles.
There was never any guarantee of what might be in one issue to the next. Mystery, science fiction, the occasional cowboy or war story and these could be from any number of publishers. Marvel, Charlton, Fawcett, Archie, ACG and some other publishers.
This particular issue has 68 pages of all ACG material most of which is an entertaining read. For a shilling (1/-) this was a good buy for me as a child so more than a few editions made their way into my first collection of comics. Long lost of course as happened to most of us who moved on to other things as we grew older.
Alan Class stopped publishing in 1989.
I've been happily renewing a small collection of these and was Lucky enough to meet Alan a couple of years back. (See: here)
30th Century Comics in Putney have an excellent guide to Alan Class Comics which you can find find here on their website. Go to: 30thcenturycomics.co.uk. They also stock an extensive range of these titles including file copies from Alan Class's own collection.
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